Todays Project - What did you do today?

[EdK]

Mike,

That's a cool CB radio. Is everything in the hand piece or is there a main unit mounted elsewhere?
By the way, I was guessing it was a new mount for your radar detector.

Ed

[stevec]

I was gonna say "mount for your CB mike?"



Steve

[Charles Spencer]

Yesterday turned out to be machine maintenance day.  I replaced the 3450 RPM motor on my little Garvin horizontal mill with a 1725 RPM.  This produced more usable speeds.  I also swapped out the motor spindle pulley.

A couple of weeks ago I made my first leather belt for this mill.  A while back I bought a belt lacer like this one:

   


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I paid $12 for it and apparently that was a pretty good deal.  I had seen Keith Rucker use one in a video.  They are not at all difficult to use.  You put the clips in the narrow slots, put it in the bench vise, insert the end of the belt, and tighten the vise.  The skewer looking thing attached by a chain holds the clips in place by means of a narrow hole that runs through the bottom of the slots.  I bought the clips and I also got some coated wire they use as a pin to hold them together.

http://www.sloanex.com/hay-parts/belt-lacers.html

They work pretty well but you could probably use any stiff gauge coated wire that fits.  I mention this because I replaced the cotter pins in the belts on my two South Bend lathes with them.  They run smoother now.

[zmotorsports]

(08-28-2015, 09:04 AM)EdK Wrote: Mike,

That's a cool CB radio. Is everything in the hand piece or is there a main unit mounted elsewhere?
By the way, I was guessing it was a new mount for your radar detector.

Ed

Ed, the CB has a small remote mounted box that is grounded to the body, the antenna connects to the small control box along with the mike, it is only about 2"x2"x4" in size.  All of the controls and speaker are in the hand held mike.  One problem with this Cobra Model 75WXST is that the small speaker is not very powerful and is hard to hear with even the slightest breeze outside or any other vehicle noise from surrounding vehicles.  I installed a small 10-watt 4" square external speaker just above my rearview mirror that improved the sound volume and quality tremendously.  The wife and I now don't have to look at each other and ask "what did they say"?   It was quite annoying.

Oh and to the comment about you thinking it was for a radar detector.....  the first clue that was not what it was for should have been that it was going in a Jeep.   Jeep and radar detector needs should NOT be in the same sentence.

Mike.

[DaveH]

Made a bracket (the larger of the two) and spacers to fit on to a small floodlight luminaire. I wanted to be able to tilt the floodlight downwards the smaller bracket would not allow this because the bracket wasn't wide enough.
   

Fits on the luminaire like so.
   

Now I can point it in a downward direction, and not get "blinded by the light"
   


DaveH

[DaveH]

The above wasn't the only thing I did to day - I sharpened my centre punch. I didn't make the centre punch otherwise I would have posted it "Home shop made tools"  
 
DaveH

[Mayhem]

I gave one of my old soldering irons a clean up.  The 6 flute 1-1/4" HSS endmill that Russ gave me was a hell of a lot quicker than using a file

   

[Vinny]

Needed a 6mm key but only had 1/4" keystock, so lacking a surface grinder, I mounted the magnetic chuck (that arrived today) on the mill, put a precut piece of the keystock on the magnet along with a piece of angle to stop it from moving around.  It did that before I put the angle on it.  Took light cuts of 0.003" - 0.004" and here's the finished product. Fits perfect.

[f350ca]

Started making more cedar shingles to finish the shop. 


Figure I need about 6 million shingles to cover the wall.

[EdK]

(08-31-2015, 08:05 PM)f350ca Wrote: Started making more cedar shingles to finish the shop. 

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Figure I need about 6 million shingles to cover the wall.

Isn't that the mechanism Sadie took off on? She decide to come back then, huh? Probably got hungry.  

Ed